Katherine Mansfield and Psychology
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781474417532
Subjects: Mansfield, katherine, 1888-1923
Description: Explores the multiple ways in which Mansfield’s fiction resonates with the landscapes opened up by psychology and psychoanalysis. In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors read Mansfield's work alongside figures like William James and Henri Bergson, opening up new perspectives on affect in her work. While these essays trace strands within the intellectual milieu in which Mansfield came of age, others explore the intricate interplay between Mansfield's fiction and Freudian theory, seeing her work as emblematic of the uncanny doubling of modernist literature and psychoanalysis.